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Notes from the divided country : poems / Suji Kwock Kim.
Van Pelt Library PS3611.I455 N68 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kim, Suji Kwock, 1968-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Korean War, 1950-1953--Poetry.
- Korean War, 1950-1953.
- Korean Americans--Poetry.
- Korean Americans.
- Korea--Poetry.
- Korea.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- x, 74 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2003.
- Summary:
- In her first collection, Suji Kwock Kim confronts a number of very difficult subjects -- colonialism, the Korean War, emigration, racism, and love. She considers what a homeland would be for a divided nation and a divided self: what it means to enter language, the body, the family, the community; to be a daughter, sister, lover, citizen, or exile.
- In settings from New York to San Francisco, from Scotland to Seoul, her poems question "what threads hold / our lives together" in cities and gardens, battlefields and small towns. Across the no-man's-land between every "you" and "I, " her speakers encounter, quarrel with, or honor others, traveling between the living and the dead, between horror over the disastrous events of the past and hope for the future. Drawing upon a wide range of voices, styles, and perspectives, Notes from the Divided Country bears witness to the vanishing world. Here is a rare new talent in American poetry, showcased in this dazzling debut.
- Contents:
- Generation 3
- The Tree of Unknowing 6
- The Tree of Knowledge 7
- Middle Kingdom 13
- Translations from the Mother Tongue 15
- Occupation 19
- Borderlands 20
- Hwajon 21
- Resistance 22
- Animal Farm 25
- The Chasm 26
- Song of Ch'u: To the Sea-Wind 28
- Fragments of the Forgotten War 30
- Flight 33
- Looking at a Yi Dynasty Rice Bowl 34
- Montage with Neon, Bok Choi, Gasoline, Lovers & Strangers 35
- Hanji: Notes for a Papermaker 41
- Leaving Chinatown 43
- Aubade Ending with Lines from the Japanese 44
- Nocturne 45
- Drunk Metaphysics 47
- The Road to Skye 48
- The Couple Next Door 49
- Monologue for an Onion 51
- Prelude for Grains of Sand 55
- On Sparrows 56
- Fugue for Eye and Vanishing Point 61
- Skins 62
- Transit Car 63
- Levitations 65
- RICE 66
- Between the Wars 68
- The Robemaker 70
- The Korean Community Garden in Queens 71.
- ISBN:
- 0807128724
- 0807128732
- OCLC:
- 51322846
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